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H. D. PURSELL 8v E; F. PRICE.

GOIN CONTROLLED-AUTOMATON.

No. 496,324. Patented Apr. 25, 1893.

UNITED STATES HARRY D. PURsELL AND EDWIN E. PRICE, ou WASHINGTON I-IoUsE, oI-IIo.

ATENT EFICE.

COURT- COIN-CONTROLLED AUTOMATON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,324, dated April 25, 1893.

i Application tiled February 14, 1893. Serial No. 462,249. (N o model.) y

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY D. PURSELL and EDWIN F. PRICE, citizens ot' the United States, residing at Vashington Court-House, in the county of Fayette and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Controlled Automatons, of which the following is a specilication.

The object of our invention is to provide a new and improved automaton set in action by a coin which acts upon two electric terminals or contact pieces in a coin chute, and completes and forms part of an electric ciouit including a motor which operates the swinging or movable arms or members of the automaton ligure.

To accomplish this .object our invention consists in the features of construction and the combination or arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a centralvertical section of our improvement in position for use. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the table in front of the automaton. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the drum operating mechanism. Fig. 4 is a detail View of the coin circuit closing mechanism.

A represents the case preferably L-shaped, in which the working apparatus is placed and concealed from view.

B represents the automaton figure having swinging or movable arms or members provided with hands which carry bowls or cups hereinafter referred to.

1 represents an electrical motor; 2 a belt driven by said motor; 3 a pulley over which said belt Works and transmits motion to the drum 4.

5 represents lugs or protnberances upon the periphery of said drum.

6 represents bellcrank levers hinged to levers 7 concealed within the arms of the automaton.

8 represents a series of straight levers; the levers 6 and 8 are supported upon a common axis 9.

10 represents a shipping lever likewise hinged upon said axis. The hands of the automaton are provided with small bowls or cups a secured thereto, bottom side up.

b represents orifices pierced through the table directly under the bowls a.

l1 represents levers hinged to the under side of the table each carrying an orifice closer cadapted to fit and close the orifice b, preferably made to represent the surface of the table, and upon which is mounted a ball. 11 represents similar levers, hinged in like manner but not provided with a ball.

D represents an electrical generator e, e, the wires forming a circuit to the motor l; these wires are normally broken at the point 13, and the circuit is closed by the coin C dropped into the chute G and lodges upon the electrical terminals or contact pieces d and 14, the latter being composod of an arm or rod hinged to a trip-lever 10.

In the practical operation of the apparatus the coin C is introduced into the coin-chute G, and is stopped by the arm 14, so that the coin bears against the latter, and also against the terminal or contact-piece d. By this means the coin completes 1and constitutes a part of the electrical circuit e to set the motorin motion, and the drum makesv one revolution; as soon as the revolution is complete the trip pin 16 engages the lever 10 and pulls the arm or rod 14: out of the path of the coin which drops down into the receptacle H thereby breaking the circuit, when the rod returns to engage the succeeding coin. By the revolution of the drum one set of the lugs 5 engage with the bent levers 6, and lift the arms of the automaton up; another set o f lugs operate the arms 8, which operate in turn the arms 1l and 12; these lugs 5 may be arranged in various ways, but the preferred form is to have the levers 11 lifted up exposing the ball 12in the orifice b when the arms ot' the automaton are .raised; but to operate alternately with each lifting of theA arms so that at one time the ball is exposed and at another time the orifice closer conceals the orifice. These operations take place rapidly and the disposition of the ball forms a puzzle; but the automaton may be operated in various similar waysby the lugs on the drum engaging the operative levers 6 and 8.

Having described our invention, what we claim isl. The combination in an automaton, of a figure having movable arms or members, le

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Vers connected with said arms or members for moving the same, a rotary drum for actuating the levers, an electric motor for rotating the drum, a coin-chute, an electric circuit connected with the motor, a pair of terminals or contact pieces included in the circuit and against which the coin introduced into the coin-chute bears to make and form part of the electric circuit for setting the motor in action, and devices for moving one of the terminals or contact pieces to release the coin and thereby break the circuit, substantially as described.

2. The combination in an automaton, ot' a figure having swinging arms or members, levers connected with said arms or members for swinging the same, a rotary drinn for actuating the levers, an electric motor for rotating the drum, a coin-ch ute, an electric circuit connected with the motor, devices for retaining the coin in the coin-chute and completing the circuit. to start the motor, and tripping mechanism operated by the rotary drum for releasing the coin from the coin-chute, substantially as described.

3. The combination in an automaton, of a table having orifices, a figure having movable arms or members located above the table, levers arranged under the table, oriice-closers, levers connected with 'the movable arms or members, a drum having lugs for actuating all of said levers, and an electric motor for operating the drum, and thereby causing the several levers to move the arms or members of the figure and the orifice-closer, substantially as described.

In testimonywhereof We have hereunto set our hands.

HARRY D. PURSELL. EDlVIN F. PRICE.

litnessesz FRANK M. BATEMAN, GEORGE W. ALLEN. 

